NASA's Scout System Accurately Predicts Small Asteroid Impact

The successful prediction marks a significant step towards providing advance warning about future asteroid impacts.

NASA's Scout impact assessment system accurately predicted the trajectory of a small asteroid, 2024 BX1, that entered Earth's atmosphere over Germany.
The asteroid was first spotted within three hours of its impact with Earth’s atmosphere by Krisztián Sárneczky at the Piszkéstető Mountain Station of the Konkoly Observatory near Budapest, Hungary.
Scout detected the asteroid about an hour and a half before it made impact with Earth’s atmosphere, marking a significant step towards providing advance warning about future asteroid impacts.
Congress has tasked NASA with reporting on all near-Earth objects, regardless of size, though objects 140 meters and larger are considered a serious hazard if an impact were to occur.
Detecting smaller objects like 2024 BX1 is providing useful data that helps NASA and its partners plan for potential future events and how best to mitigate the dangers they could represent.